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    I am a first time bed bug hostess..my landlord is diligently treating the problem with exterminators..but this saga has been ongoing for 3 months now. People say that the trick is in the preparation. This I have done to the nth degree. My daughter has even said that we will have to use skype to visit. Anyway, it was a real find to read your article on diatomacious earth and bed bug extermination! My concern is that I have 3 cats (active and young). Could you please send me suggestions as to how I can treat for the bugs and still keep my felines healthy? Looking forward to your reply. Thanking you in advance for your help!:)

    1. bcurrent1
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      Sorry it took me so long to answer your questions. I’ve had some health issues that slowed me down for a while. We also have cats and it scared me about what the treatments might do to them. What we did was pack them up in cat carriers and put them on the patio for several hours to let the initial treatments dissipate. If you get food grade diatomaceous earth you can treat without worrying about your cats. Have you used a mattress enclosure on your beds? The mattress is usually the single most infested place when you have bed bugs. Making sure to use a mattress enclosure will help a lot!

      1. Kev
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        Hi, i’ve read that bed bugs keep reproducing inside the matress enclosure, and can get out by biting it, is this true?. Also, do bed bugs penetrate all the way inside the matress? i mean can they kind of dig or something? cause i have an infested matress, i stopped sleeping there, been using some product that works really well but i find one or two new (mid size) bed bugs every day or so and there’s no furniture in that area so i was thinking maybe they are coming from INSIDE the matress.

  2. TR
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    Hello

    How do you treat your bedroom with DE? I want to put the stuff down but not at the expense of my health

    1. bcurrent1
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      You should make sure that you get “food grade” DE. Then I would sprinkle it around the edges of your room and around the feet of your bed.

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